Paweł Graliński

Paweł Graliński
Born	(1961-01-10) January 10, 1961 Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Warsaw University of Technology
Occupation	Architect
Buildings	Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw

Paweł Wiktor Graliński (born January 10, 1961) is a Polish architect, specializing in planning and design of mixed-use developments and commercial and entertainment centres in Poland and Europe.

Life and career

Graliński attended the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, studying the work of the Polish Academy of Sciences. While he attended the University he was involved in anti-communist opposition. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1984.

In 1984, he moved to Oslo, Norway. From 1986, he led the design office "Andersen, Larsson, Graliński AS", and he founded his own design studio in 1988. His contribution was in shopping centers in the eighties and nineties in Scandinavia. He also designed insurance company headquarters, office buildings, coastal land developments, housing, redevelopment projects and residential sites.

In 1996, he was invited to design Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw. In 1997 he founded his own architectural firm in Poland: Paweł W. Graliński Arch Magic Assoc. Architects, dealing with investment projects and real estate development. Graliński designed entertainment projects, university buildings, offices, industrial areas, and residential areas.

Graliński belongs to the Association of Norwegian Architects, the Chamber of Architects, the Engineers Chamber of the Republic of Poland, and the Association of Polish Architects.

He lives outside of Warsaw in a house of his own design, cultivates a vineyard and breeds race dogs.

Awards and prizes

In 2002, Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw, which he designed, was recognised by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) for its design. It was the first ICSC award for a project in Central and Eastern Europe regions.

He was further recognised for:

• The most beautiful office building (Viking House, 2000, the prize by the Mayor of Warsaw, District of Ursynów)
• Building of the Year (Punkt 44 entertainment centre in Katowice, Silesia, Poland, 2002, the prize by the Polish Association of Construction Engineers)
• Interior of the Year (Cinema City Toruń, 2004, the Pomerania Marshal award.

Selected projects

• Graliński works
• 
  Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
• 
  New Technologies Centre, University of Warsaw
• 
  Focus Mall, Piła - Project
• 
  Arkadia shopping mall, Warsaw
• 
  Cinema City, Manufaktura shopping centre, Łódź
• 
  Cinema City, Toruń
• 
  Punkt 44, Katowice
• 
  Sadyba Best Mall, Warsaw
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  Sadyba Best Mall, Warsaw
• 
  Viking House, office building, Warsaw
• 
  Vinterbro Center, Norway

• Vinterbro Center, Vinterbro, Norway, 1994
• Viking House, Warsaw, 2000
• Sadyba Best Mall, Warsaw, 2000 (first 3D IMAX® theatre in Poland)
• Punkt 44, Katowice (entertainment centre: cinema Multiplex & IMAX®, bowling), 2003
• Cinema City, Toruń, 2004
• Horse Race Apartments, Warsaw, 2005
• Cinema City (IMAX) Manufaktura, Łódź, 2005
• Cinema City Arkadia, Warsaw, 2006
• private residency, Konstancin-Jeziorna, 2006
• Focus Mall, shopping centre, Piła, project
• Centrum Nowych Technologii I (CENT I) University of Warsaw, 2013
• Faculty of Psychology University of Warsaw, project
• Vogla square, Warsaw– Wilanów, project

External links

• Arch Magic – official site
• New Technologies Centre, Warsaw University
• interview with Paweł Graliński
• Paweł Graliński about commercial centres
• Psychology faculty, Warsaw University